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Both men and women are waiting on average six years longer to tie the knot compared to thirty years ago, the report stets, “with the average ages of first-time brides and grooms now being 30 and 32 years respectively, up from 24 years for brides and 26 years for grooms in 1987”.

Men and women are waiting longer to tie the knot, NISRA found (Image: Getty)

NISRA added: “A total of 8,300 marriages and 92 civil partnerships were registered in 2017, equivalent to roughly one every hour. While July and August were the most popular months to get married, Saturday 2nd September and Saturday 16th September were the most popular days to get married, with 102 couples having married on each of these days.

“There were 2,089 divorces and 13 civil partnership dissolutions granted in 2017, with non‑cohabitation remaining the most frequently recorded reason for separation.”

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